In my view, good shooters will dominate good arms. Good arms will dominate bad shooters. Bad arms will just lose. I also think that we will see more good arms than good shooters (teams have more experience with arms), so good arms will appear to be the winning design for many competitions. In other words, I agree with Craig's basic idea, but disagree in practice.
As for placing capability, I feel that it will win many qualification matches, especially early on, but not as many elimination matches. Kind of like dumpers in '06; a good dumper won lots of qualifiers, but they had to find a good shooter or two to ally with for elims or else they were toast. In contrast, I think at least one divisional final, and possibly the whole championship, will be decided by placing (like the balls in 2002). At that level, both alliances are capable of scoring ludicrous amounts of points - it'll be that small little boost that pushes one to beat the other.
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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
edit: Optimizer just beat me.
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*chuckle* Naturally, since he
is optimized.